To Joseph Fletcher   29 March 1893

29/3/93.

 

Am not surprised, dear Mr Fletcher, that you must limit the M'Leay's Memorial Volume1 more than was intended. The depression in these Colonies affects also science, and I have not even been able to contribute to the fund for this volume.

As I pointed out to your worthy President some months ago,2 I had to reduce even my private book-expenses much and other former liabilities for science purposes, as my income was already heavily taxed by my multifarious science connections and the reductions in the Department render my work still more difficult. The statistic notes on Australian plants3 I have now received back. They serve well for the litterary organ of the new international Academy for the geography of plants, founded in Le Mans, and of which I have been elected President.4

Always glad to cooperate with the L.S. of N.SW. and with friendly greeting

your

Ferd von Mueller

 

Do you like me to propose you for FLS. of London?5

1
Flectcher (1893).
2
Leter not found.
3
See M to J. Fletcher, 2 March 1893.
4
See M to H. Léveillé, 3 December 1892. M's statistical paper duly appeared in Le Monde des Plantes, the journal of the International Academy of Botanical Geography (B93.06.02, B93.07.03, B93.08.01).
5
No record of M’s proposing Fletcher for the Linnean Society of London has been found.

Please cite as “FVM-93-03-29,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/93-03-29